The Oxford Handbook of Truth

by Michael Glanzberg

• ISBN13: 9780191502651
• ISBN10: 0191502650
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2018-07-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Author Biography

Michael Glanzberg (Ph.D. Harvard, 1997) taught at MIT, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Davis before joining Northwestern University. He works in the areas of philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics. In philosophy of language, his recent work has focused on the nature of linguistic meaning, including such topic as the nature of quantification, how lexical items encode concepts, and relativism about linguistic content. He has also explored issues related to the interface between semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, and the role of mathematical techniques in the empirical study of language. In philosophical logic and in metaphysics, he has worked extensively on issues related to truth and paradox, and the status of unrestricted quantification.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: ANCIENT AND MODERN THEORIES OF TRUTH
1. Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood, Jan Szaif
2. Truth in the Middle Ages, Margaret Cameron
3. Early Modern Theories of Truth, Alan Nelson
4. Idealism and the Question of Truth, Clinton Tolley
PART II: TRUTH IN EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
5. Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics, Thomas Baldwin
6. Facts and Propositions: Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey, Peter Sullivan and Colin Johnston
7. Truth in Frege, Richard G. Heck and Robert May
PART III: THE CLASSICAL THEORIES OF TRUTH
8. The Coherence Theory of Truth, Ralph C. S. Walker
9. The Correspondence Theory of Truth, Marian David
10. The Identity Theory of Truth, Stewart Candlish and Nic Damnjanovic
11. The Pragmatist Theory of Truth, Cheryl Misak
PART IV: TRUTH IN METAPHYSICS
12. Truth Bearers and Proposition, Jeffrey C. King
13. Truthmakers, Ross P. Cameron
14. A Logical Theory of Truthmakers and Falsitymakers, Neil Tennant
15. Bivalence and Determinacy, Ian Rumfitt
16. Truth, Objectivity, and Realism, Sanford Shieh
17. Deflationist Truth, Jody Azzouni
18. Truth in Fictionalism, Alexi Burgess
19. Relative Truth, Herman Cappelen and Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes
20. Truth Pluralism, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen and Michael P. Lynch
PART V: OTHER APPLICATIONS
21. Moral Truth, Mark Schroeder
22. Truth and the Sciences, Anjan Chakravartty
23. Truth and Truthlikeness, Graham Oddie
24. Truth in Mathematics, Oystein Linnebo
PART VI: FORMAL THEORIES AND PARADOX
25. Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-Defeat, Roy A. Sorensen
26. Tarski on the Concept of Truth, Greg Ray
27. The Axiomatic Approach to Truth, Kentaro Fujimoto and Volker Halbach
28. Non-classical Theories of Truth, Jc Beall and David Ripley
29. Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox, Keith Simmons